As recently as November, five young people lost their lives in a terrible road accident in Gaillac in Tarn. With 32 deaths on the roads, the year 2024 was particularly deadly in the department. In 2025, the prefecture wants to strengthen controls and prevention but also toughen sanctions.
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On the roads of the department, the gendarmes invite motorists to take their feet off by increasing the number of checks. This Friday, December 20, 2024, they are carrying out simple routine checks, a few days before the Christmas holidays. The aim is above all to raise user awareness. All indicators are on the rise.
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More injured accidents but also more deaths. 32 people will be killed in 2024, 8 more than last year. With one particularity, driving fatalities concern all types of profiles.
“This is the difficulty we face. Since we identify all categories of users, all categories of vehicles, all ages and many different causes”states Jean-Michel Doose, commander of the Tarn gendarmerie group, who adds:
We have a consistency, it is mainly behavioral errors that create these accidents. So distractors like the telephone but also the consumption of alcohol, drugs or speed.
Jean-Michel Doose Commander of the Tarn gendarmerie group
To prevent these risks in 2025, the police will be particularly attentive. Stricter road controls but also tougher penalties for reckless motorists.
“It can simply be a bit of harmless behavior where you have the impression of making a very small breach of the rule. But on the road, this breach of the rule is not forgiving,” recalls warns Laurent Buchaillat, Prefect of Tarn, who warns:
On certain speeding offenses, when we drive under drugs, when we are in the position of recidivism, when we refuse to temper, the suspensions that I will pronounce in the days to come and for the future will be more severe
Laurent Buchaillat, Prefect of Tarn
Another lever for action is prevention with road safety courses in middle and high schools to support future motorists on the roads.
